Tucker Carlson’s interview with US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee has gone viral, with 2.5 million views on Twitter and almost 3 million views on YouTube.
It has also provoked a major global diplomatic incident, with more than a dozen Muslim-majority countries issuing a joint statement describing Huckabee’s comments defending Israel’s “biblical right” to take over the Middle East as “dangerous and inflammatory.”
Carlson’s tough questioning of Huckabee was a massive indictment of our mainstream media. Why can’t Sunday show interviewers ask follow-up questions when US officials make fantastical claims on behalf of Israel, in the way that Carlson did? Why can’t nightly news anchors ask pro-Israel officials to justify Zionist claims to the land of Palestine, in the way that Carlson did?
Nevertheless, over the course of the two-and-a-half-hour interview in Israel, Huckabee made multiple false claims that even Carlson failed to challenge or rebut. Sounding more like Israel’s ambassador to America than America’s ambassador to Israel, Huckabee produced fake statistics and bogus timelines while misrepresenting his own record.
So here are the top 11 lies that Huckabee told Carlson, debunked by yours truly:
TUCKER CARLSON: “Jonathan Pollard. I’m just going to show the name to you and have you explain.”
MIKE HUCKABEE: “I’m glad you asked. Interestingly, there’s been a lot of things about it. You’re the first person who has asked me about it, which I find amazing. So I’m glad you...
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